Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish

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Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (5 August 1905 – 23 March 1944)[1] was the second son of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Lady Evelyn Emily Mary Petty-FitzMaurice.

He was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, Eton and Cambridge University. He joined the Royal Tank Regiment where he became a lieutenant.

In 1932, he married the dancer Adele Astaire (1896–1981), a star of Broadway theatre and the London stage and sister of Fred Astaire, at his family seat of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. He had met Adele in London in 1927 and courted her when he worked for the bank J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York City.[2] Adele proposed to Lord Charles at the 21 Club in Manhattan.[3] Their children – a daughter born in 1933 and twin sons born in 1937 – lived only for a few hours. The couple lived at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Ireland, which had been given to them as a wedding present by Lord Charles's father, the 9th Duke of Devonshire.[4] A clause in Lord Charles's will stipulated that Lismore Castle was to go to his nephew, Lord Andrew Cavendish, if Adele remarried, which she did in 1947, to Kingman Douglass.[4]

Cavendish died at Lismore Castle, aged 38, of long-term acute alcoholism and was buried at Lismore Cathedral.[5][6][7]

Ancestry

Family of Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16. William Cavendish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8. William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17. Louisa O'Callaghan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4. Edward Cavendish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18. George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9. Blanche Georgiana Howard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19. Georgiana Cavendish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2. Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20. Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10. William Lascelles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21. Henrietta Sebright
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5. Emma Lascelles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 22. George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle (= 18)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 11. Caroline Georgiana Howard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23. Georgiana Cavendish (= 19)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25. Louisa Fox-Strangways
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 26. Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13. Emily Jane de Flahaut, 8th Lady Nairne
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27. Margaret Mercer-Elphinstone, 7th Lady Nairne, 2nd Baroness Keith
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3. Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 28. James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 29. Harriet Douglas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7. Maud Evelyn Hamilton
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15. Louisa Jane Russell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31. Georgina Gordon
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ CAVENDISH, Lord Charles A. F., Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
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  5. ↑ "Two-Step: The Astaires" New York Times, 31 May 2012
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